Goodbye, Farewell and Amen (Part 2)
December 16, 2006 by Mary Jo Manzanares
Filed under Business
Back in March, I wrote a similar post when Scrivs decided to close off WorkBoxers. But then things changed, and I was given the keys to this beast. But alas, now it’s time to hand them over to someone else, and that being the cowboy himself. I was going to submit this site to sitepoint where I’m sure I would have gotten a slightly higher price for it, but by selling to David, I know this baby’s in good hands. You may have noticed a “lack” of content over the past few months. The facts are in, I no longer manage to find time to post here on WorkBoxers, or anywhere for that matter. Instead of turning to blogging for a money fix/building a business .. I’ve turned to something bigger and better that will hopefully... [Read more]
Workboxers Guide to Chrismas
December 9, 2006 by Mary Jo Manzanares
Filed under Business
The facts are in. Blogging has just paid for all my Christmas shopping .. and I even managed to pick up a little present for myself, the new Nintendo Wii console. This year I decided to get in early, so with my Christmas shopping done, I thought I’d whip up this little guide for the festive season. It’s a little late I know, but there’s still 12 days of consumers running around, trying to find that perfect gift. Every year, more and more consumers turn to online shopping to make their purchasing decisions easier and easier. Credit card facilities are more secure than ever and the threat of cyber crime is diminishing. So what does this mean for your site? Christmas is an affiliates dream, with some earning insane margins on... [Read more]
Two things you need to know
December 8, 2006 by Mary Jo Manzanares
Filed under Business
Two things I want to quickly point out to you folks; 1) It’s 100% possible to get a high page rank (PR7) with only one page, here’s proof. (Clicky) 2) Sometimes when competition is stiff, the only way to stand out from the crowd is to go crazy and do something out of the norm. If you’re advertising on adwords for whatever product or service you are promoting, sometimes the best method is the most riskiest method. Below is an advert I witnessed today. (On my own website too..) [Read more]
Ranking for unrelated keywords
December 6, 2006 by Mary Jo Manzanares
Filed under Business
You know your site is loved by Google when you rank well for an unrelated keyword or phrase. I stumbled across Darren’s camera blog today, it was third in Google’s search engine results for the phrase “Christmas gift idea’s”. Nice Darren :) [Read more]
Interesting Adsense Advert
November 9, 2006 by Mary Jo Manzanares
Filed under Business
Someone’s paying for this? [Read more]




